Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? (Video)
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/nov/05/japan-best-bike-shed
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"The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes – but could it branch out in the UK?"
Excerpt:
"It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago.
Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece. It's basically an automatic storage system for cycles and operates with computer tagging of bikes and either storage in a building or a basement structure."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/nov/05/japan-best-b...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/nov/05/bicycles-japan-bike-tree
Watch the video at the link.
That tree structure really makes me think of the one in the matrix film, they had a similar one but for humans though :)
Excerpt:
"It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago.
Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece. It's basically an automatic storage system for cycles and operates with computer tagging of bikes and either storage in a building or a basement structure."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/nov/05/japan-best-b...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/nov/05/bicycles-japan-bike-tree
Watch the video at the link.
That tree structure really makes me think of the one in the matrix film, they had a similar one but for humans though :)
